Does the American legal system work as advertised? Does it even work at all?
News about abusive police, rotting prisons, and Congressional corruption all point to deep problems. In THE NONSENSE FACTORY, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows that these defects are not aberrations, but the product of the legal system's ceaseless, heedless growth. The whole factory of the law--legislation, enforcement, judgment, and corrections--has become so ambitious, yet so ignorant, that it cannot help but produce endless problems. The law sprawls into unknowable chaos, and citizens find themselves tangled in a web of obligations they cannot possibly honor, and victims for the unscrupulous to easily exploit. We see this playing out daily in Donald Trump's America.
The legal crisis has become urgent. America is rapidly arriving at the point where no one can understand what law actually is or should do. The result is a system at war with itself, mutually distrustful and hostile in the extreme. The system can be salvaged; indeed, it must be. The risks of inaction are immense--the very stability of our country.
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: new. A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself by the acclaimed author of A Generation of SociopathsOur trial courts conduct hardly any trials our correctional systems do not correct and the rise of mandated arbitration has ushered in a shadowy system of privatized justice Meanwhile our legislators cant even follow their own rules for making rules while the rule of law mutates into a perpetual state of emergency The legal system is becoming an incomprehensible farce How did this happenIn The Nonsense Factory Bruce Cannon Gibney shows that over the past seventy years the legal system has dangerously confused quantity with quality and might with legitimacy As the law bloats into chaos it staggers on only by excusing itself from the very commands it insists that we obey leaving Americans at the mercy of arbitrary power By examining the system as a whole Gibney shows that the tragedies often portrayed as isolated mistakes or the work of bad actors police misconduct prosecutorial overreach and the outrages of imperial presidencies are really the inevitable consequences of laws descent into lawlessnessThe first book to deliver a lucid comprehensive overview of the entire legal system from the grandeur of Constitutional theory to the squalid workings of Congress The Nonsense Factory provides a deeply researched and witty examination of Americas state of legal absurdity concluding with sensible options for reform. Seller Inventory # DADAX0316475262
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Does the American legal system work as advertised? Does it even work at all?News about abusive police, rotting prisons, and Congressional corruption all point to deep problems. In THE NONSENSE FACTORY, Bruce Cannon Gibney shows that these defects are not aberrations, but the product of the legal system's ceaseless, heedless growth. The whole factory of the law--legislation, enforcement, judgment, and corrections--has become so ambitious, yet so ignorant, that it cannot help but produce endless problems. The law sprawls into unknowable chaos, and citizens find themselves tangled in a web of obligations they cannot possibly honor, and victims for the unscrupulous to easily exploit. We see this playing out daily in Donald Trump's America.The legal crisis has become urgent. America is rapidly arriving at the point where no one can understand what law actually is or should do. The result is a system at war with itself, mutually distrustful and hostile in the extreme. The system can be salvaged; indeed, it must be. The risks of inaction are immense--the very stability of our country. Just as he took on the Baby Boomers in A Generation of Sociopaths, venture capitalist-turned-writer Bruce Cannon Gibney now sets his witty and sharp-tongued intellectual claws on America's mess of a legal system, showing how its myriad problems threaten to undermine the rule of law in America. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780316475266